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Lily and Arabella's Hogwarts Life, Chapter 3: Natures Variety
The next day after breakfast Lily hurried down to the Evans Mansion basement. The basement was huge, and very originally decorated. In the basement lived the Evans family's pets. And there weren't few animals.
Her mother had two puppies of the race Toy American Eskimo, she had an old Cavalier king Charles spaniel, a female Phaléne dog with two puppies, a little male Volpino Italiano, a female Shetlans sheepdog and a male Patterdale terrier.
Lily's father, though, was fond of dogs with a bit more size and had two English springer spaniels, two Nova Scotia duck tolling retrievers and one male Irish setter.
Petunia also had dogs: tow Yorkshire terriers, one male West Highland white terrier, one female Chihuahua, two Puddle puppies and one male Bichon Frisé.
Lily had one female Golden retriever, one male Labrador, two Border collies, two longhaired collies, two Alaskan malamutes, one Rottweiler puppy and two Siberian Huskies. Combined they had thirty-two dogs.
Besides from the dogs Lily's mother had Persers; one chocolate coloured male, one red-tabby male, one silver-tabby male, one green-eyed shaded silver female, a chinchilla female and one yellow-eyed shaded silver female, she used all of the cats in cat shows.
Lily's father had one silver-tabby and one brown-tabby Maine Coon male and one black Maine Coon and one white yellow-eyed female Main Coon, also in shows.
Petunia had a black and white Sphynx and five Siamese's; one red-tabby masked, two chocolate masked and tow brown-tabby masked, all for shows. Lily didn't put her cats in show, though, but her mother sometimes brought some of Lily's with her.
Of longhaired cats Lily had one silver and one chocolate-silver Somali and one red-spotted and one silver-and-white housecat. Of shorthaired cats she had a silver-spotted female Brite with two silver-spotted kittens, one black kitten and one blue tabby kitten, she also had one male red-tabby Brite. She had one male Russian Blue, one female Korat, a silver and a bronze Egyptian Mau, a silver Abyssiner and two brown Ocicats. She had two golden kittens, two silver kittens and two blue kittens of the race California Strangled and one Bengal leopard patterned female cat with a female kitten also in leopard pattern. She also had cats without tails: one white and one red-tabby and one red-tabby-and-white Manx. Added together the Evans' had forty-five cats.
In addition to this Lily had six rabbits of different races and Petunia had two white Angora rabbits. Lily had two polecats, and a tame white vixen and a tame blue fox. Lily also had a cage with five little birds, plus Lily's two owls, and a white tiger in a zoo close to them had been called after her and the Tiger Lily after her father had given the zoo a money gift.
So, the Evans family had thirty-two dogs, forty-five cats, eight rabbits, two polecats, two foxes, five birds, two owls and four horses. Overall the Evans' had 100 animals and one tiger named after Lily.
Lily owned 58, her mother 16 and Petunia owned 16 each and her father owned 10 of the animals. As Lily jumped down the final set of stairs a constant stream of welcoming barking, mewing and squeaking reached her ears.
"Hello Lily." Lily smiled at the girls passing her. Five girls who lived nearby (not in mansions though) had volunteered to take care of the animals, they couldn't have animals themselves as one or more family members had the allergies. Lily hurried over to the cat section of the basement and carefully let herself in. She had hoped to get in unnoticed, but Salem, a black kitten she had received from her Salem friends, saw her and came over to her, purring loudly.
"Hello Salem." She whispered and rubbed his ear. They didn't go unnoticed by the other cats, and soon they were all over her.
"Hello Harvey, Hermione, Diablo, Lamborghini, Rojo, Verde, Veronica, Dani, Elisabeth, Azul, Gabriel, Gabrielle, Blanca, May, Napoleon." After she had petted all of the cats she headed over to the kitten section. At the time Lily's cat Andrea, a silver-spotted Brite, had three kittens, and Katherine, a leopard patterned Bengal, also had a kitten. She also had six California Spangled kittens, two golden, two silver and two blues. Harry and Hedwig, Isaac and Isabelle and Joseph and Jenny. She checked on the oldest kittens before seating herself with Andrea and Katherine. She petted Andrea and Katherine, who lay curled up together with the four kittens close to them, and picked up one of Andreas silver-spotted ones. She turned around the four-week old kitten and immediately saw that it was a boy. 'Hmm, a name?' she thought whilst the four little crawled all over her. She picked up Andreas second silver-spotted, this one was a girl. Katherine's kitten also was a girl and Andreas last and only blue one was a boy.
"Christer and Corvette." Lily said whilst pointing at the silver-spotted, "Benny." She pointed at the blue, and "Loise." After petting and playing with all of the cats for a while she headed over to a cage in another room and fed her birds (Nub, Stephanie, Susanne, Stella, Sheila and Simone). She said hello to Kenneth and Nicole, her owls, and feed her six rabbits (Philip, Dennis, Rebecca, Roselyn, Renee and Ruth), placed in a large cage outside in the 'animal garden'. After this she hurried off to her dogs. Loud barking and happy dogs met her when she came out to the area where the dogs had their yard. She passed Petunias little Yorkshire terriers and Puddles, passed her mothers Shetland Sheepdogs and Volpino Italienos, passed her fathers spaniels before reaching her beloved dogs. Her Golden retriever Ophelia rose on her hind legs, placed her front paws on Lily's shoulders and licked her in the face. Oscar, a Labrador, came over to her wagging his tail. Mirabella, a twelve-year-old girl, came over.
"I've played with Sandra yesterday and the day before when you weren't here." Mirabella said. Sandra was Lily's twelve weeks old Rottweiler.
"And we took Oscar and Ophelia for a walk yesterday evening."
"Thanks." Mirabella petted Oscar and left. Lily found some dog chains and fastened them on eight of her eleven dogs.
"Sorry Ophelia and Oscar, but you went out yesterday." She opened the gate careful, not to let any of the other dogs out, and let the eight ecstatic dogs pull her down the street. 'I – need – help' It didn't take long for her to need help. As she passed the gate to James house, she saw a boy run down the road followed by several other one with water-balloons in their hands. "Help." He stuttered. The boy looked very much like James, but was younger.
"Watch." She whispered. Lily stared hard at the sky above the boys and a pile of snow fell on top of them.
"Wow, that was cool. Much better then what my brother does."
" James?" The boy nodded while watching his friends climb out of the snow.
"Can you get him for me?"
"Sure. Wait here." The boy said and ran off. Ten minutes later James appeared. He stared quizzically at the heap of snow and then at her.
"Your work?"
"Yup. I've always been able to do that. Discovered it the summer I was eight. Was dammed hot that year."
"Without a wand?"
"Of course! Do you think I had a wand when I was eight?"
"Nah. What you need me for?"
"Have you noted the dogs?"
"Yup. You've got eight of them."
"Correct. They're strong."
"I can see that." He said while patting one of her huge huskies.
"Alright. I'll help. We can go over to Sirius, he lives down the street, then over to Belle." Lily nodded and handed James the two Alaskan Malamutes and the two Siberian Huskies.
"Names?"
"The Huskies are Patrick and Patricia, and the Malamutes are Andrew and Abigail."
"'Kay. How 'bout those?" He asked and pointed at the one's Lily had.
"Oh, the Collies are Martin and Michelle, and the Border Collies are Fred and Francine. I also have a Golden Retriever at home called Ophelia and a Labrador called Oscar. Plus a Rottweiler named Sandra."
"Impressive." They began to walk down the street.
"Do you have animals?" Lily asked James.
"No. My mom and little brother's allergic."
"Allergic? He seemed fine while standing with me."
"Only some type of dogs. Mums allergic to everything with fur on. Feathers are okay though, so I have an owl."
"I've got two owls, plus... five other birds, six rabbits, twenty-nine cats—"
"Twenty-nine cats?"
"Yes, twenty-nine cats. Plus some animals I'll show you afterwards, if you want to." After some time they reached Sirius. James held the dogs while Lily ran up. She stopped infant of the huge door and rang the doorbell. After five minutes Sirius opened the door.
"Hello Lils."
"Hi. Me and James need your help."
"My help?"
"Yeah. I've got eight of my dogs with, and—"
"Dogs? I love dogs. Where, where?"
"Down there—" Sirius slammed the door shut and leaped down to James. When Lily reached them Sirius had his head in Abigail's fur.
"Come on." Sirius took the Huskies and the Malamutes chains and left Lily with the Collies and James with the Border Collies. Too soon for Sirius, they reached Arabella, and he had to give up two of the dogs. The four of them went on chatting happily, and eventually they reached a field with some trees on. There they let the dogs go free while they sat down and talked. After a couple of hours they collected the dogs and went back to Lily's. There they left the dogs in the dog yard (Where Sirius almost went crazy at the sight of all the dogs) and visited the cats. After that they said hello to the birds and the rabbits, Lily led them to her special animals. Arabella had seen them several times before, but loved to visit them.
"This is Stephen and Sally." Lily said, holding to polecats in her arms. She handed Stephen to James and Sally to Sirius. The boys looked doubting in the beginning, but as the animals crawled all over them without biting, they relaxed. After that Lily showed the boys, to their great joy, her white vixen Wendy and her fox Tony. She had received these animals after her father had found in a burrow after he had shot their parents. Lily allowed Sirius to be a dog-watcher, as he didn't have one himself, and badly wanted to be in contact with dogs.